Resistence or Conflict? The folklorist legacy in contemporary representations of the capoeira game

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https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v7i1.5448

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capoeira, conflito, cordialidade, culturalismo, folclore, capoeira game, conflict, cordiality, culturalism, folklore

Abstract

This article examines some of the motives underlying the enormous disparity between the idealized public image of the capoeira game, seen primarily as a space of harmony and social cohesion, and some extremely hierarchized and competitive everyday practices in which the capoeira performers are themselves engaged. I suggest that this gap between representation and action results from a latter-day version of a view held by mid-20th century Brazilian folklorists, and that therefore should be carefully re-evaluated. My analysis is based on various works published by researchers and capoeira performers since the 1930s, as well as on an ethnography conducted in a number of capoeira schools of Rio de Janeiro.

Author Biography

Simone Pondé Vassallo, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

doutora em Antropologia Social e Etnologia pela École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) e professora visitante do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro

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2006-07-14

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Vassallo, S. P. (2006). Resistence or Conflict? The folklorist legacy in contemporary representations of the capoeira game. Campos - Revista De Antropologia, 7(1), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v7i1.5448

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Vol. 7 (2006)

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